Joint Registry of Hip, Knee Surgeries launched in India

The IJR platform is a secure web-based data entry and reporting application enabling surgeons to quickly and easily register their patients, and create a record of the implants they have received. Data is used to underpin a detailed analysis of implant use and performance. IJR records, monitors, and tracks long-term patient outcomes following joint replacement surgery. This then looks to provide independent evidence on implant performance and to support orthopaedic research.

"This is a strategically important healthcare deal for NPS in India providing a national joint registry designed to improve patient outcomes and insight into joint and procedural performance long term. IJR will be a huge step in the advancement of joint surgery practice in India, and I am very hopeful that NPS can evolve in India to become a national healthcare provider in other areas including paediatric and adult screening for health," said Stephen Callaghan, Chief Executive Officer of NPS, owned by NEC Corporation, Japan, ("NEC", TSE:6701).

ISHKS is a society formed by top orthopaedic surgeons in India. The objective of the society is to increase knowledge of hip and knee joint in health and disease to promote the highest level of professional standard in patient care, in disorders of hip and knee joints to create the optimum environment to facilitate education research and treatment in the surgery of Arthritic hip and knee joints. ISHKS strives to promote ethical practices among its members and aims to create a joint replacement registry for the purpose of research.